A Wind in the Door
L'Engle, Madeleine
From Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1From Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1About this Item
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page, and SCARCE thus. The second book in the "Time Quartet" series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 002203
Bibliographic Details
Title: A Wind in the Door
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
Edition: 16th Printing.
About this title
It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin's vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn't a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros.
Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles' life as well as the balance of the universe.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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